A review by chlonline
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25

breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami does such an amazing job navigating womanhood, motherhood, and everything in between, through the eyes of working class women. the book talks about the concept of childbirth in a way i’ve never seen before, and i mean that in a very good way. kawakami writes SO POETICALLY it moved my heart. i guess it was just a bit too slow-paced for me that it took me quite some time to finish it, but it truly is a work of art. breasts and eggs reminds me so much of a beautiful, melancholic blue summer that just warms my soul. 

one of the lines that really stuck with me was when natsuko was talking about the concept of having a child:

It’s not that I want a child. I don’t want them, I don’t want to have them. I want to meet them. My child. I want to meet my child and live with them. But who is it I want to meet? We’ve never met before.